Penned by songwriter Gary Zekley, "Yellow Balloon" was first recorded by Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean (while Jan Berry was recovering from a car accident). Zekley wasn't a big fan of Torrence's take on the tune, so he recorded his own version featuring himself on vocals, Mike Post on guitar, Tim Gordon on drums, and Mike Rubini on harpsichord, according to American Songwriter.
Helping to boost the popularity of "Yellow Balloon" was the surprising controversy surrounding the tune. The year before, in 1966, Donovan's classic hit "Mellow Yellow" was banned by some radio stations because people believed the song was about smoking banana peels to get high (referred to byAtlas Obscura as the "greatest drug hoax of all time"). Despite the fact that "Mellow Yellow" wasn't actually about smoking anything, when "Yellow Balloon" came out, some radio stations assumed it, too, was about drugs, and banned it just to be safe. (Naturally, that just made people want to hear it even more.)
"I never felt this way before / It's a feeling that I can't explain / There's one thing that I know for sure / I can tell you're feeling it too / 'Cause when I'm walking with you in the rain / It's like a yellow balloon / It's like a yellow balloon / On a rainy afternoon / And that's a yellow balloon"
Don Grady was a '60s sitcom star
While Grady was already well-known, it wasn't for music: He played Robbie Douglas on the classic sitcomMy Three Sons. While playing with The Yellow Balloon band, he wore a disguise and used a pseudonym (but word still got out).
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